Commodore Scotland Under Threat...

[commodorejohn]

Release the damn stuff at a fair price so that folk looking for it can easily purchase it and don't give me the crap that you can legally buy it on Amiga Forever, why should someone who has no use for Amiga Forever be forced to purchase that to obtain just the Workbench disks or ROM images... :madashell:

Or cut the crap out altogether and just let it be placed in the public domain where it really belongs in this day and age...

Amen to that.

[commodorejohn]

You can look at it differently: 9.99EUR for ROM 1.3 and OS 1.3, 29.99EUR for all ROMs and Workbench versions. And you get a free simulation program with it that you may choose not to use.

Mandatory bundling is already the plague of the modern marketplace; I'll be damned if I accept it worming its way into retrocomputing.

[commodorejohn]

So much for respecting other people's property.

If "respecting other people's property" necessitates playing along when someone buys the distribution rights to something they didn't even create and then makes it available only when purchased with other products, then I will disrespect other people's property proudly and without regret, thank you.

[commodorejohn]

The price isn't the point, though - it's the mandatory purchase of other software. Would it kill them to offer the ROM separately for, say, $5?

[commodorejohn]

Sorry nicholas - you don't own Commodore or Amiga. Are you really that arrogant?

As far as I'm concerned, any one of us has a more legitimate claim to the names than a company that licensed them from a scavenger, which got them from a scavenger, etc.

Though at least Cloanto is using it for something actually Amiga-related, and that's more than you can say for some licensees...